Troy Taylor

Taylor is a wonderful story teller. For many of the stories it's as much a history of the place as it is the ghost story or urban legend involved. He breaks the union into various parts of the country with several stories for each area. Bachelor's Grove cemetery near Chicago, The Winchester Mystery house in CA, the LaLure mansion in New Orleans, Gettysburg battlefield and it's surroundings and The Mount and the ghost of Edith Wharton. Very well written and again it's as much a history lesson as it is a book of ghost stories.… (mehr)

Fun book with a number of odd places and people in Indiana. A number of sections with a big section with ghost stories, the phantom hitchhiker or the haunted train or bridge. There's a few creeping around the state. Another section about large than life roadside attractions, a huge elephant of which there actually 3, different versions of the "muffler man." Strange animals, from two headed calves to big foot, yes big foot in Indiana, and a giant snapping turtle. Was amazed to see that my home town Prairieton made it into the book with the locally infamous blue hole which is "bottomless." And Terre Haute just north of there where I live now got three mentions, Stiffy green the dog in a mausoleum, the man who had a phone line installed in his family crypt for if he was buried alive and St. Mary of the Woods College and the shrine that is made of shells. Really an enjoyable read and shows that we have more than just corn fields in Indiana.… (mehr)